WEG dressage: Will it be a Valegro v Totilas showdown?
Update: Injury forces Totilas out of WEG 21 August, 2014
A fascinating competition promises when the dressage competition starts at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 inwards Caen, Normandy, adjacent week.
In the history of this exacting sport at that topographic point has never been a to a greater extent than intruiging contest inwards prospect for both the squad as well as private medals, as well as unopen to really large questions volition survive answered over the coming days.
The Dutch managed to suspension the German linguistic communication traveling steal on the squad championship for the commencement fourth dimension at the final edition of the Games inwards Kentucky (USA) inwards 2010 but, iv years on as well as the Germans i time over again expression the ones to beat. German linguistic communication Chef d’Equipe, Klaus Roeser, has a formidable forcefulness at his disposal, as well as that includes the Equus caballus that took Kentucky past times tempest when providing his Dutch rider, Edward Gal, with the accolade of becoming the first-ever challenger to accept 3 golden medals at a Dressage World Championship.
That horse, of course, is the already-legendary Totilas whose storey since those heady days has been something of a rollercoaster. The dark stallion’s sale, his disappearance from the competition arena for 2 years as well as his abrupt furnish to the really overstep of the game with Germany’s Matthias Alexander Rath inwards recent months ensures his presence is intriguing.
Meanwhile the weight of expectation on the shoulders of Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin is enormous. Holder of all 3 overstep scores inwards Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special as well as Freestyle next a spectacular three-year run that included double Olympic glory with the bright Valegro, the 29-year-old passenger as well as her trusty steed faltered nether the spotlight at Aachen final calendar month patch Rath as well as Totilas precisely relished the oestrus of the intense competition.
The tale of 2 horses whose mesmerising talent has succeeded inwards opening upwardly this previously conservative sport to a whole novel Earth of followers inwards recent years looks laid to come inwards a novel as well as exciting chapter every bit they come upwardly face-to-face i time over again adjacent week. And with Dujardin inwards determined mood this fourth dimension around, it may survive the Ground Jury who come upwardly nether the greatest pressure level every bit they effort to divide these 2 giants on the scoreboard.
The large three
Of course of report at that topographic point is a bang-up bargain to a greater extent than to the 7th FEI World Equestrian Games Dressage contest, with 103 horse-and-rider combinations from 31 countries inwards activity at the D’Ornano Stadium inwards the urban center of Caen. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 total of 25 nations volition trouble up in the squad event, bidding to claim the commencement squad spots for Rio 2016, earlier the Grand Prix Special as well as Freestyle medals are decided.
The principal squad medal contenders expression probable to survive from Germany, Netherlands as well as Great Britain, the countries that filled the steps of the winner’s podium at final summer’s Blue Hors FEI European Dressage Championships inwards Herning, Denmark.
Dujardin as well as Valegro spearhead the British laid on along with their trainer as well as mentor Carl Hester riding the relative newcomer Nip Tuck, patch Michael Eilberg partners the lovely greyish mare Half Luna Delphi as well as Gareth Hughes competes DV Stenkjers Nadonna. As a team they volition quest to survive at their best however, because Denmark, Sweden as well as the ascent tide from the USA volition survive with a host of other countries waiting to pounce if they are not.
The same British side – with the exception of Uthopia every bit Hester’s ride – took bronze inwards Herning where they were precisely 0.427 adrift of the silver-medal-winning Dutch side, patch Deutschland came out on overstep past times a farther margin of 0.684.
The Dutch foursome at Normandy is also really similar, over again with solely a horse-change for Hans Peter Minderhoud who this fourth dimension partners Glock’s Johnson instead of Glock’s Romanov. Danielle Heijkoop made an impressive senior squad debut with Kingsley Siro inwards Denmark, patch the 2 large scorers inwards the Dutch line-up were Edward Gal, whose Glock’s Undercover has gained a bang-up bargain to a greater extent than sense inwards the intervening period, as well as the double Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage champions Adelinde Cornelissen as well as Jerich Parzival.
There is solely i replacement passenger on the victorious German linguistic communication side, with Fabienne Lutkemeier as well as D’Agostino making agency for Matthias Alexander Rath as well as Totilas, patch Isabell Werth has a modify of horse, as well as it’s a sensational one.
Werth’s personal tape throughout the 24-year-history of the FEI World Equestrian Games is every bit venture every bit it gets. The 45-year-old passenger claimed squad golden as well as private silvery with Gigolo at The Hague inwards 1994 as well as squad as well as private golden with the same Equus caballus inwards Rome inwards 1998. She did the double over again on domicile Blue Planet inwards Aachen inwards 2006, this fourth dimension with Satchmo, as well as inwards Kentucky inwards 2010 was inwards the bronze medal winning German linguistic communication side with Warum Nicht.
She travels to Normandy with a Equus caballus she describes every bit “the best I’ve always ridden!” – the 10-year-old chestnut mare Bella Rose who she has been carefully nurturing over the final few years as well as which showed fantastic shape as well as potential every bit they sparkled as well as shone inwards Aachen final month.
With Kristina Sprehe as well as Desperados FRH as well as Helen Langehanenberg riding her 2013 Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage champion Damon Hill NRW this looks an awesome German linguistic communication foursome, as well as Langehanenberg is probable to survive with the string of horse-and-rider partnerships strongly challenging for the private medals every bit well.
Valegro v Totilis
All eyes of course of report volition survive on the 2 super-star horses – Valegro as well as Totilas – throughout the entire calendar week of competition. When at their best, both Dujardin’s gelding as well as Rath’s stallion receive got the might to cast a spell over spectators as well as to earn colossal scores for their flair as well as flamboyance every bit they execute the virtually hard of dressage movements with the greatest of ease.
But both horses quest the back upwardly as well as expertise of their riders, as well as the Dressage Championships at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 volition survive every bit much a examination of graphic symbol for Rath as well as Dujardin every bit anything else.
Rath has made an incredible comeback with the Equus caballus that achieved the first-ever score to a higher identify ninety per cent inwards the history of this sport as well as who claimed team, Special as well as Freestyle golden inwards Kentucky a twelvemonth afterward exploding onto centre phase when claiming double-gold at the FEI European Dressage Championships inwards Windsor (GBR) inwards 2009 with Gal on board.
It hasn’t been tardily to follow inwards the Dutchman’s footsteps with Totilas, who is instantly fourteen years of age, but afterward a hard start it seems the Rath/Totilas partnership has gelled at final and, now, anything is possible.
Dujardin’s confidence was shaken past times her performances inwards Aachen final calendar month where, next an extraordinary run which suggested they were all but invincible, Valegro lined upwardly 6th inwards the Grand Prix as well as was runner-up behind Rath as well as Totilas inwards the Special. The British duad came dorsum to win the Freestyle, but all of a abrupt their bid for a construct clean sweep of Olympic, European as well as World titles seemed to survive seriously undermined.
But with Hester nevertheless she has been working away at home, preparing for Normandy with renewed vigour, as well as hence it seems the phase is laid for a super-charged calendar week of sport every bit the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 medals are decided.
On course
- Maximum 4 athletes as well as 4 horses per nation.
- 103 horse-and-rider combinations volition compete.
- 31 National Federations volition survive represented.
- 25 National Federations represented past times teams.
- 6 National Federations represented past times individuals only.
- Previous tape stood at 89 horse-and-rider combinations from 33 countries, at FEI World Equestrian Games inwards Aachen, Deutschland inwards 2006.
- Officials
- 3 divide competitions as well as 3 sets of medals.
- Grand Prix/Team competition, Mon 25/Tuesday 26 August. The 3 medal-winning teams volition majority the commencement squad spots for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
- Grand Prix Special on Wed 27 August is opened upwardly to top-30 horse-and-rider combinations addition ties for 30th place.
- Freestyle on Fri thirty August is opened upwardly to top-15 horse-and-rider combinations addition ties for 15th place.
- Top scores earlier the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 – all held past times Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin as well as Valegro: Grand Prix 87.129 laid at the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Final inwards Lyon (FRA) inwards Apr 2014; Grand Prix Special 88.022 laid at CDI Hagen (GER) inwards 2012; Freestyle 93.975 laid at CDI-W London (GBR) Great United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland inwards Dec 2013.
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